Property market
The five-year median is £1,465,000 from 1 recorded sale in OX2 8JX. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Cherwell is £353,632 in June 2026, up 3.8% year on year.
OX2 8JX
Kidlington East · Cherwell · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Oxford
- Ward
- Kidlington East
- Local authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock
- Postcode district
- OX2
- Postcode sector
- OX2 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OX2 8JX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- OX
- Postcode district
- OX2
- Postcode sector
- OX2 8
- Latitude
- 51.799150
- Longitude
- -1.283582
- British National Grid easting
- 449,499
- British National Grid northing
- 211,409
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Cherwell · E07000177
- Electoral ward
- Kidlington East · E05010932
- Parish or community
- E04008047
- Westminster constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock · E14001090
- Output area
- E00145254
- Lower layer super output area
- Cherwell 019C · E01028511
- Middle layer super output area
- Cherwell 019 · E02005939
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore OX2
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Hillcrest, Woodstock Road, Wolvercote, Oxford, OX2 8JX | 30 June 2022 | £1,465,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 29
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 3
- 1.6 km
Wolvercote Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.9 km
St Thomas More Catholic Primary School, Kidlington
Academy converter
- 1.9 km
West Kidlington Primary and Nursery School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 604
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 213
- Shoplifting 96
- Other theft 58
- Public order 50
- Anti social behaviour 48
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 6
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 6.0
- OX2 8 residents
- 6,139
3 female, 3 male
Age bands in OX2 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.9%
1,010 residents
602 residents
1,352 residents
1,673 residents
1,302 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider OX2 8 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 25%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 75%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
7
within 5 km
GOSFORD HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
167 OXFORD ROAD, GOSFORD, KIDLINGTON, OX5 2NS
ODS code K84045
1.8 km
THE KEY MEDICAL PRACTICE
EXETER CLOSE, OXFORD ROAD, KIDLINGTON, OX5 1AP
ODS code K84082
2.5 km
BANBURY ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
172 BANBURY ROAD, OXFORD, OX2 7BT
ODS code K84021
3.0 km
SUMMERTOWN HEALTH CENTRE
160 BANBURY ROAD, SUMMERTOWN, OXFORD, OX2 7BS
ODS code K84011
3.1 km
ISLIP SURGERY
THE SURGERY, BLETCHINGDON ROAD, ISLIP, KIDLINGTON, OX5 2TQ
ODS code K84003
4.2 km
JERICHO HEALTH CENTRE
WALTON STREET, OXFORD, OX2 6NW
ODS code K84078
4.5 km
OBSERVATORY MEDICAL PRACTICE
JERICHO HEALTH CENTRE, WALTON STREET, OXFORD, OX2 6NW
ODS code K84026
4.5 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
Peartree Park and Ride
BCT · Peartree
- 0.4 miles
Oxford Parkway Railway Station
BCT · Water Eaton
- 0.4 miles
Oxford Parkway Railway Station
BCT · Water Eaton
- 0.4 miles
Oxford Parkway Rail Station
RSE · Oxford Parkway
- 0.5 miles
Peartree Park and Ride Entrance
BCT · Peartree
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cherwell 019C, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
9 of 10
Overall England rank
29,598 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
29 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 3 secondary schools. Wolvercote Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
604 published events cover 12 months, averaging 50.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 213 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.